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any proprietors' right who has either by himself or by some other person under him Settled and removed on Said lands which survey and location being recorded Shall vest a Complete title in such Settlers, and shall be Considered as parcel of such proprietors' right.

That said Commissioners shall locate and survey all such grants as they may make in favor of any new Settler on said lands in such towns as have been already granted, as far as vacant lands Can be found for that purpose, or on such gores of land as remain ungranted between said towns; provided, that nothing herein shall be Construed to affect the title of any actual settler in Such town. Said Commissioners are to take special Care that the property of Widows and Orphans be in no instance infringed.

That the said Commissioners shall as soon as may be Convene together and appoint some particular place for their holding their Court and they shall in no instance hold their Court in any other place than that first agreed upon unless it shall not be convenient to meet at such place, in which Case it shall be in their power to adjourn to any other place and they shall appoint Some proper person for their Secretary, who shall keep fair and Accurate records of all their proceedings and determinations.

That said Commissioners be and they are hereby authorized to make locations and surveys in favor of any Settler or proprietor on any of the broken or mountainous lands lying within five miles of the river not Convenient to lay out townships five miles square, and annex the same to such townships as they shall judge proper, provided, That such location shall in no instance Exceed 600 acres to the proprietor of a full right, or in proportion to a proprietor of a less quantity than a full right,. including any location heretofore made by such proprietor, or any person under him, and also including such locations a may be by the said Commissioners made in favor of any settler on his proprietary right.

And said Commissioners are hereby authorized to grant new townships agreeable to the former votes of this Comp", and the powers heretofore granted to any Committee for that purpose are hereby declared to cease and determine.

And said Commissioners are hereby authorized to enquire into the particular Circumstances of any location, and settlements, that have been made Contrary to the former regulations of this Comp', and Confirm or disallow the Same as they shall judge most Conducive to the interests of this Comp'; and it is hereby ordered that no location which may hereafter be made, Contrary to the regulations Contained in this Act, shall in any instance be admitted or Confirmed.

That any three of the said Committee, together with their Secretary, shall be a quorum to transact any of the business aforesaid.

That the Expense of locating, surveying, and determining all matters aforesaid shall be paid by persons in whose favor such locating, &c., shall be made or done, and that said Court of Commissioners shall in no instance exact or receive unreasonable or exorbitant fees.

That any five of the said Commissioners, with their Secretary, shall be a Court with power to hear and finally determine, all Controversies between Actual occupants, respecting the title of lands, and to award equitable Costs in the usual form of trials at law; this power to determine, whenever a form of internal government shall be estalished in that Country.

Resolved likewise, that the Commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby fully authorized and empowered to do, and transact any other matters and things which they May judge necessary for the security and protection of the Settlers on said lands, and for the benefit of the Comp of Proprietors, hereby ratifying and Confirming whatever said Commissioners may do in the premises.

That no new settler be entered in the town of Claverack, by the Court of Commissioners, until after the first day of May next. Whereas, Nathaniel Wales, Junr., late of Windham, Esq., formerly a Committee of this Comp', and had their monies in his hands, and has since deceased, leaving his accounts with the said Comp unsettled.

Voted, that Col. Ebenezer Gray be appointed a Committee, to adjust and settle the accounts of the Comp' with the Executrix of said Wales, and receive the balance if any there be, and account therefor with the Treasurer of this Comp'.

Voted, that each person that was Considered by this Comp as a sufferer, and was Compensated therefor in a township at Muncy Creek, which is now possessed under Penn, be adnitted by the Court of Commissioners, to take an equal quantity of land in any township to be laid out in lieu of said grant upon said Muncy Creek, provided he settle the same the next Summer or season. Test Joel Barlow, Clerk, pro tem.

Liber C. p. 199.

Feb. 18, 1795.

Notification.

Proceedings and resolutions of Connecticut Susq" Comp' at their meeting held at Athens,

The proprietors of the Connecticut Susq* Comps are notified that a meeting of said pro

prietors will be held at the dwelling house of James Irwin in Athens, on Tioga Point, and County of Luzerne, on Wednesday the 18th day of February next at 10 o'clock A. M., of the same day, on business of importance to the Comp.

Dated this 26th day of December, 1794.

The printers in the States of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York, are requested to publish the above as a matter of public Concern for the benefit of their Customers. JOHN FRANKLIN, SIMON SPAULDING,

PETER LOOP,

Feb. 18, 1795. Preamble.

JOHN JENKINS, Commissioners.

Agreeably to the above notification published in Conformity to the rule of the Connecticut Susq* Comp', 1200 proprietors of said Comp', being a large Majority, Convened on the 18th day of February instant, at the dwelling house of Mr. James Irwin, in the township of Athens, County of Luzerne, and State of Pennsylvania, Inn keeper; and having elected Elisha Hyde, Moderator, and David Paine, Clerk, of said meeting, and having heard read a Charter of Charles the Second, late King of Great Britain, &c., bearing date 11th of April, 1662. granting to the inhabitants of Connecticut all the lands, &c., lying and being in New England, Butted and bounded on the North by Massachusetts Plantations, on the east by Narragansett Bay, on the South by the Sound, and in Longitude of, and within all the breadth aforesaid throughout the mainland to the South sea on the west part, together with the privileges, &c., and also sundry Statutes, acts, deeds, and other documents, granting and Confirming the Claim and title of Certain lands to said Comp", described and bounded as follows: Beginning from the one and fortieth degree of North Latitude, and ten miles east distant from the Susqa River, and thence with a Northerly line ten miles east of the river, to the forty-second degree, or the beginning of the forty-third degree of North Latitude, and to Extend west two degrees of Longitude 120 miles, and from thence South to the beginning of the forty-second degree, and from thence east to the aforementioned bounds, which is ten miles east of the Susquehanna, together with the proceedings, resolutions, rules, and regulations of former meetings respecting the same.

Adjourned until the 20th instant at 9 o'clock in the morning, to meet at the same place.

On the 20th of February instant at 9 o'clock in the morning the meeting opened, made some rules and regulations and passed the following Resolutions, to-wit:.

8-VOL. XVIII

This meeting entertaining a high sense of the importance of order and good government, will use their utmost endeavors to prevent any ill-disposed persons, without due authority, unlawfuly intruding upon, surveying or attempting seige, and settle any of the aforesaid lands, will assist in preserving the public peace, afford a just protection to the property of the real owners, and such settlers as enter on the same land peacably in due Course of law and under real proprietors thereof, being fully determined in a Constitutional and legal manner only, to maintain and defend the title and Claim which the aforesaid Comp have to the aforesaid lands, and also to recover such parts thereof as are possessed in opposition thereto. Resolved, that the following persons, to wit:

Standing Committee.

Col. John Franklin, Col. Zebulon Butler, Gen. Simeon Spalding, Col. John Jenkins and Major Elisha Satterlee, of the County of Luzerne and State of Penna; Timothy Edwards of Stockbridge, County of Berkshire, commonwealth of Massachusetts, Esquire; Doc. Joseph Hamilton of the City of Hudson, in the County of Columbia, and State of New York; Peter Loop, Junr., of New Town, County of Tioga and State of New York, and William Judd of Farmington, County of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, Esquire, Proprietors to Ex- be Commissioners of said Comp' and that each hibit claims prior to proprietor of said Comp" exhibit his claim to one of the aforesaid Commissioners, on or before the first day of March, 1796, or the same will be Considered forfeit.

March, 1796-or forfeit.

That each full share be entitled to two thousand acres of land, and that Eight full shares be a sufficient number to Cover a whole township of 5 miles square, and in the same proportion as to any other shares; That when any part of a share hath heen already laid out, that shall be deducted from the said two thousand acres to be laid out, and the deficiency made up with part of another share.

ascertain the names of Proprietors.

Commissioners to That any three of the aforesaid Commissioners residing on the aforesaid lands, be empowered to ascertain, examine, adjudge and determine, by reference to the Records of the Clerk of the Susq" Comp, or any other records, the names of proprietors Claiming under said Company. Commissioners Em- That they make out a Complete list of the powered to make a list of names. names of the proprietors, and annex thereto the proportion of land to which they are severally entitled at large, on the Records of said Company.

Commissioners Empowered to make grants.

That any three Commissioners residing as aforesaid shall be and are hereby authorized

and empowered on the application of Eight proprietors to grant new townships of land equal to five miles square of any of the unappropriated lands of said Comp', and also to make grants of any quantity of land not already granted, situated between any of the townships heretofore granted, although the same lands are not Equal to five miles square.

Condition of grants

ber than 8 proprie

tors.

That whenever the said Commissioners shall given to less num- make any grants of any township, on the application of any number of proprietors holding less than Eight full Shares, the townships so granted shall be divided into Sixteen Equal parts, as to quantity and quality and the variant rights shall be Subject to be filled up by any other applicants, being proprietors.

Commissioners Em

powered to Comployed in the Com

pensate persons empany's service.

That the Commissioners, or any three of them, residing as aforesaid, be empowered, and are hereby authorized to fix on a proper Compensation for the Surveyor of the Comp, or any other officer or officers, person or persons, acting as agent or agents, or who are or have been employed in the Service of said Comp, and a Certificate of said Commissioners shall entitle said Surveyor or any other persons as above mentioned to receive of the Treasurer of said Comp' the sum Certified under the hands of said Commissioners.

compensate suffer

ers.

Commissioners to That any three of said Commissioners residing as aforesaid, are hereby authorized and empowered to Examine into any Claim or Claims, of any person or persons, for any service, suffering or losses, which he or they may have performed, suffered or sustained, in Consequence of their attachment to the said Comp'; and to make such equitable allowance in the lands of Said Comp' as they shall judge reasonable.

Survey to be approved by the surveyor.

That previous to the issuing of any grant as aforesaid the survey of the land to be granted, shall be approbated by the Surveyor of said Company.

Commissioners' That any three of the Commissioners residclerk Empowered to issue certificates. ing as aforesaid, be authorized to ascertain and examine how many whole or half share rights of the six hundred ordered to be issued on the 13 of July, 1785, have been issued, and that such number as have not been issued may be issued, under the direction of any three of the Committee residing as aforesaid, by the Clerk of said Commissioners, and disposed of by him for the same uses and purposes, for which said Certificates were directed to be disposed, by the votes of said Comp".

That a tract of land not exceeding four towns of sixteen

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